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Things God Loves

Things God Loves: Humility

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Philippians 2:3-4

James 4:10

humble = tapeinophrosýnē (greek)
from the root words meaning “low, humble” and “moderation as regulated by inner perspective.”

Proverbs 3:34

James 4:6-7

1Peter 5:5-6

Humility before God

Job 39:1-18 (reference only)

If we lack humility before God it’s because we don’t trust His goodness, His wisdom or His power.

Humility with Others

Humility: the feeling or attitude that you have no special importance that makes you better than others. ~Cambridge Dictionary

Luke 14:7-11

Humility of Self

Romans 12:3

Philippians 2:6-8

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Things God Loves: Everyone

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God loves everyone. (But he doesn’t love everyone the same.)

God has a providential love for his creation.
Matthew 5:45
God has a redemptive love for his fallen world.
John 3:16
“God loves the great totality of fallen human beings. All of them.” ~John Piper
Romans 5:8
God has a preferential love toward his chosen people.
Malachi 1:2-3
Romans 9:10-13
God has a conditional love toward his faithful ones.
John 15:9-10

Countering Objections to the statement God Loves Everyone…

If God loves EVERYONE, we ought to love EVERYONE, too.

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Things God Loves: Me

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Reasons we might struggle to know/believe God loves us:

We love with expectations.
We play the comparison game.
We trust our feelings more than than we should.
We don’t see the wisdom in God’s will.
We become our own worst enemy.

John 17:20-23
God loves me just as He loves Jesus
Romans 8:38-39
nothing can keep me from God’s love.

God loves me just as He loves Jesus,
and nothing can keep me from God’s love.
Not even ME.

1 Peter

1 Peter 5:1-12 The End. (Of the Book.)

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1 Peter 5

1 Peter 5:5-7 Humilty
Humility in relationship to one another.
Humility in relationship to the almighty God of the universe.

1 Peter 5:8-10 Perseverance
Persevere against the adversary.
Persevere in suffering.
Persevere until the end.

1 Peter 5:10

He will RESTORE you.
He will CONFIRM you.
He will STRENGTHEN you.
He will ESTABLISH you.

What do we want more: to have Jesus, or to not suffer?

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1 Peter

1 Peter 4:1-7 Suffering and Ceasing from Sin

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Be willing to suffer well in a world that won’t believe.
1 Peter 4:1-6 (ref)
1 Peter 4:1a (up to “ceased from sin”)
1 Peter 3:18
Isaiah 53:10-11
1 Peter 4:1b-2 (start with “for whoever”)
1 Peter 4:3-4
1 Peter 4:5
1 Peter 4:6

even to the dead I the gospel was preached

Question: How could the gospel have been preached to them if Jesus had only recently come?

Answer: Ever since the fall God has given witness to the good news of Jesus and the promise of his coming.

judged I the way people are I in the flesh (line 1)
live I the way God does I in the spirit (line 2 progressive)

Be willing to suffer well in a world that won’t believe.

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